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(: Test: K2-DirectConElemWhitespace-5                    :)
(: Written by: Frans Englich                             :)
(: Date: 2007-11-22T11:31:21+01:00                       :)
(: Purpose: xml:space declarations are ignored.          :)
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declare boundary-space strip;
string(<e xml:space="preserve"> </e>) eq ""